Golan, who entered politics five years ago after a career in the army, is one of the most prominent of the many brave Israelis who took matters into their own hands that day to save others. His new image as a hero has given his political career a shot in the arm – and he has decided his new mission is to revive his country’s moribund left.
“The right today in Israel is people who think we can annex millions of Palestinians, and Israel should adopt some sort of policy of revenge, that we can live by our swords and not attempt to reconcile with the Palestinians or any other hostile entity in the region. I think 180 degrees the opposite.”
Israeli politics has changed, Golan said. “I’m not sure whether Israel right now is truly a democratic state any more … It is not a question of left or right any more: these titles are meaningless,” he said.
no, because it was just a ‘protocols of the elders of zion’/‘henry morton stanley’ crossover LARP from day one, if the people who were there first got subjected to laws (which they did) but couldn’t vote (which they couldn’t), then they were never a democracy. not for a second. they were and are an oligarchy, a racial supremacist theocratic(oh, fun facts) apartheid one. also the genocide, they also started that on basically day 1.
*so about that. i’m told there’s, like, a specific law in one of the big jewish holy books that says specifically to not do a zionism and especially not ‘in the holy land’ unless you’re this one specific dead guy, and it is absolutely not okay.